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Are primary care doctors ready for portable handheld ultrasound devices?

Saturday, December 05, 2009 | By Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog

by Richard Reece, MD There’s no question the deck is stacked against primary care. Its rates are too low, its hours too long, and its prestige too lagging. Yet everybody agrees a vibrant and broad primary care base is essential to a smoothly...

Pregnant Women Need More Than 1 Ultrasound

Tuesday, December 15, 2009 | By Basil & Spice: HealthCare Issues!

Linda Burke-Galloway, M.D.-- An IVF patient posted a blog complaining about the possibility of only receiving two ultrasounds during her pregnancy and I could feel her pain. Quite recently I had a protracted discussion with an imaging center that kept...

Don’t Wait Until Mortality Stares You Down To Write A Will

Wednesday, April 23, 2008 | By I've Paid For This Twice Already...

Yesterday I went to the hospital for a (scheduled) CT scan. Without getting mired in details, I’ve been having some unexplained abdominal pain as well as a few other intestinal symptoms, and my doctor decided to do a CT scan to look for both a...

GE unveils handheld ultrasound machine (AP)

Wednesday, October 21, 2009 | By PC Mike's E-Journal

AP – The future of ultrasound technology, as interpreted by General Electric Co., looks a bit like a flip phone crossed with an iPod. See the article here: (AP)" />GE unveils handheld ultrasound machine (AP)

What Is Passive Physical Therapy?

Monday, July 20, 2009 | By Johns Hopkins Health Alerts

In most cases, back pain resolves quickly, regardless of the type of treatment. But if you experience severe back pain that doesn't improve after a couple of days of bed rest, you may want to consider physical therapy. A reader asks: What are passive and...

Neglected Diagnoses: Putting you at risk!

Tuesday, June 19, 2007 | By Gene Sherpas: Personalized Medicine and You

I have decided to let the rest of the Forbes article analysis rest for today. Instead I wish to relay to you a story which deeply troubled me. Today I saw a patient that was referred to me for the diagnosis of Osler Weber Rendu. Also Known As Hereditary...

Soft Touch

Saturday, May 05, 2007 | By Surgeonsblog

They told me in medical school that the diagnosticians of old could thump on a chest and detect a tumor as small as a centimeter. I'm not sure I ever believed it, but I've always had a love for the art of physical diagnosis -- of touching, feeling...

User friendly handheld ultrasound device

Wednesday, August 12, 2009 | By Healthy Living

Couple of years back, Tom Cruise was in news for buying a sonogram machine (Ultrasound) so that he and his girlfriend Katie Holmes can see their unborn child, whenever they wanted..   I don’t know whether it was the good or bad idea, but...

2006 Case Report Indicating That Xenical (Orlistat) May Cause Substantial Acute Liver Injury

Monday, August 31, 2009 | By Drug Injury Watch

Medical Journal Letter To Editor Stated That Exact Mechanism Of Hepatotoxicity In Subject Patient Was Unknown (Posted by Tom Lamb at DrugInjuryWatch.com ) As we reported, on August 24, 2009 the FDA issued its "Early Communication" notification  ...

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